U of T Law prof’s book explores climate policy through the lens of Canadian law and institutions

Andrew Green finds reasons for hope when it comes to addressing climate change. In his recent book Picking Up the Slack: Law, Institutions, and Canadian Climate PolicyGreen, a professor in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, explores how the law and legal institutions are shaping our current response to climate change. The book delves into the complexity of the issue in the Canadian context. For example, Green examines the difficulties caused by the discretion embedded in our environmental laws by the diffusion of responsibility for climate law and policy, as well as the deference of courts and the public…
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Osgoode Hall trees’ fate set to be determined

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice is set to determine if the historic trees at Osgoode Hall in Toronto will live beyond this week. The court granted the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) an interim injunction on Sunday that prevented Metrolinx from chopping down the mature trees for Ontario Line subway station construction. But on Friday, the interim injunction will expire at midnight, unless the order is extended. A virtual hearing is taking place on Thursday afternoon in the hope of extending the current temporary pause on tree removal until the Toronto City Council can consider an Ontario Heritage Act…
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VoIP-Pal Provides Legal Update on the Status of Current Patent Litigation

Voip-Pal.Com Inc.The Western District of Texas grants VoIP-Pal’s motion for reconsideration WACO, Texas, June 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — VoIP-Pal.com Inc. (“VoIP-Pal”, “Company”) (OTCQB: VPLM) is pleased to provide a legal update of recent developments in the current patent litigation.At a hearing held on June 12, 2023, in Case No. 6:20-CV-00272-ADA the Court granted VoIP-Pal’s motion to reconsider the Court’s final construction of the term “routing message” and construed the term to mean “a message that includes a callee user name field and a route field. ”VoIP-Pal has filed a stipulation dismissing its lawsuit against Samsung in…
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Police concerned individuals possess items for self-harm as Kenneth Law investigation continues

Descrease article font size Increase article font sizePolice say they are concerned members of the public may be in possession of items that can cause self-harm as their investigation into an Ontario man accused of aiding suicide continues.“In early May 2023, investigators charged Kenneth Law for the online sale and distribution of sodium nitrite,” Peel Regional Police Const. Sarah Patten said in a public safety advisory issued Friday. “Eleven police services from across Ontario are involved in a joint investigation in regards to this case.” Patten asked that individuals be alert for any packaging or labels identifying sodium…
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Macao further restricts political freedoms with revisions to national security law

BEIJING — Echoing the crackdown on freedoms in neighboring Hong Kong, the former Portuguese colony of Macao has revised its legal system to face “new adverse challenges in terms of national security.” The government of the tiny enclave, heavily dependent on its gambling industry, said changes to the Law on Safeguarding National Security were needed as an upgrade to legislation first enacted in 2009, a decade after Macao’s handover to Chinese rule. “As the country now faces new adverse challenges in terms of national security, the revision of Macao’s Law on Safeguarding National Security is a compulsory step to respond…
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Bill 96: Quebec public servants to rely on ‘good faith’ of people seeking service in any language but French

With Quebec’s new law to protect the French language poised to come into effect June 1, the government has sent provincial agencies a list of criteria clients must meet in order to be served in a language other than French. CBC News has obtained the instructions the ministry responsible for the French language has given to those agencies and institutions on how to apply the law, known as Bill 96. The law’s wide scope limits the use of English in the courts and by civil servants, and imposes stricter language requirements on small businesses, municipalities and CEGEPs. Provincial civil servants…
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Washington governor signs law allowing duplexes, fourplexes

Article content SEATTLE, Wa. (AP) — At a time of soaring home prices, rising homelessness and a housing crisis in Washington that will require 1 million homes over the next two-plus decades to keep up with population growth, Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday signed a law legalizing duplexes and fourplexes in most neighborhoods in nearly every city to increase the state’s housing supply.Article content House Bill 1110 overrides local zoning rules that have long kept large areas in cities for only single-family homes. The new law will not ban the construction of single-family homes, but it will stop cities…
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Cannabis legal update : Clyde & Co

Germany takes a long-expected step to drive forward the adult-use cannabis market in Europe, the global export market adjusts to develop domestic agendas, and the UK has a choice to make.Last week (12 April 2023) saw the German government put forward its formal proposals to legalize the cultivation, possession, and consumption of cannabis for recreational purposes (otherwise known as the “adult-use market” as opposed to the “medicinal market”) . While the proposals have been long expected, they did not extend as far as some may have wished but do still, if implemented as planned, represent the most significant development…
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